Sera Cahoone: Deer Creek Canyon (Sub Pop)

Sera Cahoone: And Still We Move

Seattle-based Cahoone keeps good
company. Early on she drummed in Band of Horses, has toured with
Grand Archives, and co-produced this with Thom Monahan who does those
duties for Devendra Banhart and Vetiver.

The jaunty step of
Nervous Wreck here belies the sentiment about escaping
troubles, and much of this is about feeling adrift and a specific
longing for her Colorado home and family on the beguilingly simple,
seductive and folksy title track: “All the love I have here,
sometimes it's just not enough”.

Cahoone makes the personal into the
universal: accepting no attachment to a former lover (Rumpshaker);
yearning for an absent partner (Here With Me); being sociable when you just
want quiet (Shakin' Hands); guilt at making someone unhappy
(One to Blame) . . .
Real feelings, and the simple arrangements (beautifully spare and
echoed on And Still We Move) give them intimacy.

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